Arthur C. Brooks
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Because, you know, I don't have very many regrets, Oprah, but there's one regret that I have, which is that I never got to know my parents that well because I was on the go, go, go.
I was living in Europe and I was kind of pursuing my career.
And I thought, you know, they're interesting.
My dad was a mathematician.
My mother was an artist.
They were very interesting people.
And I thought, I'll have time.
They died.
They died young.
And it was too late.
I didn't get to know them.
And my kids didn't get to know them very well.
They didn't know their grandparents very much.
And I said, I'm not going to screw that up a second time.
And so I'm not.
So we all moved in a great big moving van to the same area.
All the families together.
My youngest is 22 and she's still in the military, but she'll be back.
And my sons, they got married at 22 and 23 and started having kids at 23 and 24.
And we're helping, we're helping.